2025 Brunei Delegates
Siti Mazidah Mohamad
Director, Center for Advanced Research, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei
Dr. Siti Mazidah Mohamad is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) and Director of the Centre for Advanced Research (CARe) at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. She is currently a research fellow at INTI International University, Malaysia (2024-2025) and was a visiting fellow at ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore (2022-2023). As a youth geographer, she researched Muslim youth culture and engagements with popular culture and new media in Southeast Asia, focusing on mobilities, everyday socio-spatial affective engagements, practices, and realities of young people reflected through various new social media platforms. Her main research interest lies at the intersection of young people, digital media, and popular culture, and everyday lived religion studies. Recently, she has been exploring emotion, youth futurity, and digital media literacy. She has published widely in top-tier ranked journals and recently published her first sole-authored book, Mediated Muslim Cosmopolitanism: New Media and Popular Culture Engagements in Brunei and Malaysia, Routledge (2025).
Dr. Siti Mazidah Mohamad is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) and Director of the Centre for Advanced Research (CARe) at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. She is currently a research fellow at INTI International University, Malaysia (2024-2025) and was a visiting fellow at ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore (2022-2023). As a youth geographer, she researched Muslim youth culture and engagements with popular culture and new media in Southeast Asia, focusing on mobilities, everyday socio-spatial affective engagements, practices, and realities of young people reflected through various new social media platforms. Her main research interest lies at the intersection of young people, digital media, and popular culture, and everyday lived religion studies. Recently, she has been exploring emotion, youth futurity, and digital media literacy. She has published widely in top-tier ranked journals and recently published her first sole-authored book, Mediated Muslim Cosmopolitanism: New Media and Popular Culture Engagements in Brunei and Malaysia, Routledge (2025).